yammer

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Ranger yammer was the only one to pick 7 IP on the nose, but he had Millwood allowing four runs on six hits.

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  1. intransitive verb To complain peevishly or whimperingly; whine.
  2. intransitive verb To talk volubly and loudly.
  3. transitive verb To utter or say in a complaining or clamorous tone.
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  • Addressing his statement to those who "want to hear me yammer, '' Lewis writes:" Somehow, after a quarter of a century, I surmise only a select few with critical minds will believe anything I have to say. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • "It's a long drive, but we can yimmer-yammer all the way there," Cheerful Poet said as she climbed into the back seat. —  jo(e)'s page
  • Ranger yammer was the only one to pick 7 IP on the nose, but he had Millwood allowing four runs on six hits. —  Texas Rangers
  • And so why do I always yammer, yammer, yammer at you to "buy gold"? —  Asia Times Online
  • When the curate exhorted him "to follow the innocency" of these little ones, it was disconcerting to have one of them burst into a piercing yammer, and wriggle so forcibly that it slipped quite out of its little embroidered shift and flannel band. —  Where the Blue Begins
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English yameren, to lament, probably from Middle Flemish jammeren, to be sorrowful.

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  1. Also yaumer, yamer; from Middle English ʒamuren, ʒomeren, ʒeomeren, from Anglo-Saxon geómerian (= Old High German jāmarōn, Middle High German jāmeren, German jammern), lament, groan, from geómor, sad, mournful (= Old Saxon jāmar = Old High German jāmar, sad, later Old High German jāmar, Middle High German jāmor, German jammer, lamentation, misery).
 

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